Today it finally starts! Even though most of you do only know about the summer events since a week, the preparations have been running since many more! With this special edition I will give you once more a chronological overview of all events and competitions starting today with the opening ceremony!

Both the staff and guide team hope that as many people as possible join this year's events, and even more important, that you all have as much fun as possible!
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>>Main thread<<
Here you have all events in chronological order! Don't miss out anything, the more participants, the more fun it will be!!

More information for each event can either be found in the main thread linked above, or in the Tavern Talk forum.

For your convenience I added links to timeanddate.com, so by clicking on any event time you will see what time that is for your time zone!

Saturday 4th

• 9pm BST: Opening Ceremony
  Kicking off this year's summer events with a party worthy of MCME!
  Server: Build server, Mirrormere
  Resourcepack: Eriador
• Skin Contest: Round 1: LotR-themed

Sunday 5th

• 7pm BST: Eomer's Pig Race
  Horses are out of service, so get your pigs ready and ride them over a cliff through entire Rohan!
  Host: @Artie_ & @DarthRagnar
  Server: Build server, Edoras
  Resourcepack: Rohan
  
  
• After Pig Race: Nostalgic River Dig
  We once built every river that way...
  Host: @Emilio_
  Server: Build server, near Rivendell
  Resourcepack: Eriador
  
  
• Skin-Contest: LotR

Monday 6th

• 9pm BST: Parkour Challenge
  Until now you only admired the MCME builds. Now it's time to climb them!
  Host: @Artie_
  Server: Build server, various locations
  
  
• Skin-Contest: LotR

Tuesday 7th

• 9pm BST: Spleef Tournament
  For once you don't dig rivers, but rather dig away the floor your friends are standing on.
  Host: @JordD04
  Server: Summer Events server (IP tba)
  Resourcepack: tba
  
  
• Skin-Contest: Round 2: Your favorite era

Wednesday 8th

• 4pm BST: Anduin Boat Race
  "Can we have boats?" - "Yes, this time you can!"
  Host: @CEFKILLA96
  Server: Build server
  Resourcepack: Rohan
  
  
• 9pm BST: Great Lore Tour Part 1: Eriador
  "I'm going on an adventure!"
  Host: Guides
  Server: Build server, Bagend
  Resourcepack: Eriador
  
  
• Skin-Contest: Eras

Thursday 9th

• 4pm BST: Ultra-Pick Challenge
  The moment when you almost get scared by what you wield.
  Host: @CEFKILLA96 & @Finrod_Amandil
  Server: tba
  Resourcepack: tba
  
  
• 9pm BST: Great Lore Tour Part 2: Eregion & Rhovanion
  "Not all those who wander are lost."
  Host: Guides
  Server: Build server, Trollshaws
  Resourcepack: Eriador
  
  
• Skin-Contest: Eras

Friday 10th

• 9pm BST: Great Lore Tour Part 3: Rohan & Gondor
  “Short cuts make long delays.”
  Host: Guides
  Server: Build server, Dead Marshes
  Resourcepack: Rohan
  
  
• Skin-Contest: Round 3: Formal

Staurday 11th

• 9pm BST: The Great River Race
  Real-life races are lame, this here is the truth of racing!
  Host: @Tryfor34 & @kisos
  Server: Freebuild (freebuild.mcmiddleearth.com)
  Resourcepack: Gondor
  
  
• Skin-Contest: Formal

Sunday 12th

• 3pm BST: "The Big Bang" Firework competition
  The task is simple: craft the most beautiful firework rocket MCME has ever seen.
  Host: @Finrod_Amandil
  Server: Freebuild or Summer Events server
  Resourcepack: Eriador
• 9pm BST: Awards & Closing Ceremony
  “I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.”
  Server: Summer Event server (IP tba)
  Resourcepack: Gondor
  
  
• Skin-Contest: Formal

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The terrain at Fennas Forven is being reworked at the moment, furthermore the Ras Morthil fortress (aka Pyke) has made some more progress.​

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A massive step forward this project took this week: Terraforming progress in literally every corner of the fief, especially though on the northern end where the Blackroot Vale is being created. For some time the southern exit of the Paths of the Dead was closed due to that, but it is now open again, however still WIP.
Additionally a very beautiful castle has been built in western Lamedon, a neighbouring village to it has already been marked out almost completely.
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Mandos along with the help of @bender400 and other Artists has made this project take a vertical take-off: Wall and main gate with a massive bridge over the river Gwathló (Greyflood) are to a large part done and a majestic shrine has been constructed in record time!
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We started to work on region 2 this week. Some nice small streams were made flowing down the mountainsides. All new trees were pasted in. All trees were root fixed in jobs, thanks a lot to all who helped.
Bush building is finished in seven out of nine sections. Thanks to @Ryiw for building tons of wonderful bushes in awesome speed.
We will see if we can finish the region during the summer event. There will be flower placing jobs .
- Eriol_Eandur
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Done and done! The purple legion struck again with the help of a few adventures and cranked out the ruining of this small town in two days which was awesome. Thanks to everyone who contributed to this last Arnorian town for now
- Fireinferno13
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- no progress this week - (busy with Summer Event stuff)
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With every week Despots orc structures look more awesome. Checl out his detailed work!
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Also a very remarkable leap has taken the western part of Pelargir, both about a dozen regular houses and some big buildings have popped up this week. The number of buildings there are now is truly incredible!​

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The 2nd cave has been finished and the cave with the gate to Angmar is in progress! I am working on the prison in the Angmar cave, and @thomasd16 and @Nic1337 led jobs for goblin houses in the caves. This week has been very hard work for Gram, on to the next!
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For an always up-to-date overview, please refer to >>this<< thread.​

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PROJECT BUILD 3 weeks
Harlond (elven haven in Lindon)
July 5th until july 26th.
>>Themed Build thread<<​

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Of course I do not provide any additional activities this week, you all will be busy enough will all the Summer Event happenings!
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@Tyranystrasz now has access to the MCME Facebook page and will start to regularily upload stuff there. For that he needs of course the very best of MCME and for that he needs YOUR help! If you have a really awesome screenshot to share, submit it >>here<<!
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No weekly tours this week, tune in to the Great Lore Tour though!​

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